Thematically, the film explores the boundaries of boyish fear and anger, taking the protagonist on a journey to find a place where he truly belongs – a place where he can grow emotionally. When home life becomes too much to handle, Max escapes to an island of monsters where he finds purpose and respect when he becomes their king. The story is about a boy named Max (Max Records), with a highly inventive imagination whose signature outfit is a wolf costume.
Don't miss it! Misfit charactersĪll of Jonze’s movies center around outsiders who struggle to fit into society and his adaptation of the beloved Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are perfectly explores this trademark. Spike Jonze will be speaking at this year's ScreenCraft Writers Summit. Here are five of Jonze’s filmmaking trademarks that help to explore those strange yet familiar places and create worlds that are as treacherous to navigate as they are fun to inhabit. His music videos and films push the edge when it comes to storytelling, taking the audience to places that seem off the map – whether it’s a story about having writer’s block, like in Adaptation (2002), a boy retreating into the wilds of his imagination, like in Where the Wild Things Are (2009), or a man dating the voice in his smartphone, like in Her (2013), the audience is guaranteed to experience something new. With characters who sometimes border on the neurotic, Jonze likes to blend the real with the fictional to get to the heart of his characters’ humanity. Writer/director/producer Spike Jonze is an iconic filmmaker with a bold, irreverent, often playful style that’s surprisingly rich with both danger and emotion.
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